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1950
1950 - 1142.PDF
FLIGHT, 15 June 1950 vv>x"i-tr->X-C"/jv---v--...-.... -r. y^m:^. Present-day safety requirements necessitate the normal use of take-off performance figures which can give quite a false impression to the uninitiated. .. For instance, and according to the textbook, the Ambassador requires a fifteen-hundred-yard runway if it is to take-off with a full load. But this runway length presupposes an engine failure at safety speed and a consequent climb to fifty feet before reaching the airfield boundary. • By pre-I.C.A.O. standards the runway length actually required is nine hundred yards — plus whatever distance the pilot may have cared to add as a safety reserve. ; AMBASSADOR AIRSPEED LIMITED * CHRISTCHURCH AND PORTSMOUTH * HAMPSHIRE 1 7« association with the de Havilland Enterprise
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